Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 10:48:59 +0800 From: Alie Tan <alie@affle.com> To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proposed patchset to support DreamPlug on freebsd 9 and 10. Message-ID: <CANuCnH_ZFiJCThSf5eCAzhZLOeZ769woHOrT9vTY9Dpo72Zgwg@mail.gmail.com>
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> > After exchanging a few emails with Richard yesterday we realized why I > had to put some tweaks on top of the patches he had posted... there are > two different flavors of a DreamPlug v10. One of my co-workers has a > unit marked "1001" and it has NOR SPI flash, as does Richard's. My unit > is marked "1001N" and has NAND flash (which makes it a bit like an > expanded GuruPlug). > > This is going to drive the need for two separate .dts files and two > separate kernel configs. I reworked the patchset I've been using for > 9-stable and -current to move in this direction, and I'm attaching what > I've got so far as a proposal for handling this difference. > > The attached patches don't include Hiroki's led driver, this is just > minimal dreamplug support on top of a fresh checkout of 9 or 10. > > I've also heard there are differences in the v0901 dreamplug units, but > I don't know what the differences are. That might require yet another > set of config. > > I broke the kernel config into 3 pieces... a DREAMPLUG-BASE that has > config for things that are dreamplug-specific and common to all > dreamplugs, and notably is not a GENERIC or kitchen-sink type config > file. Then there are DREAMPLUG-1001 and -1001N config files that > include the -BASE file, and add other options to make a more fully > usable system. I think there's plenty of room for changes and additions > to these -1001[N] files, such as IPFW and other things that you might > want right out of the box -- I do mainly embedded systems work, so I > don't know what most folks might want. > > The config for the 1001N needs more work, notably more support for the > NAND flash in the .dts and kernel configs. Since the whole reason I'm > playing with a dreamplug is to get some experience using nand flash, > I'll be working on that in the days to come. I just wanted to get this > out there and see if folks think this is a workable direction for > supporting different dreamplug flavors. > > -- Ian > Is there any plan to merge this patch to HEAD? Its already 3 months but still now news about this news. Regards, Alie T
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